This last summer I did a couple of sprint triathlons. Fun and addicting AND it gives me something to work towards, some motivation to exercise. I also appreciate doing multiple sports, which is great for someone like me who has exercise ADD.
Here's a bunch of swim workouts I've done and am still working through. Err...was working through. I'm on a bit of a hiatus as of late.
Some of these are gathered from sources around the web, quite a few of the main sets came from Scott.
CLICK HERE for a pdf of the workouts.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Monday, October 26, 2009
The Princess Cartel Deconstructed
And we buy this stuff for girls and let them pretend to be princesses? Hmmm...
From http://contexts.org/socimages/
Furr by Blitzen Trapper | #musicmonday
Yeah, when I was only 17,
I could hear the angels whispering
So I droned into the words and wandered aimlessly about
Until I heard my mother shouting through the fog
It turned out to be the howling of a dog
Or a wolf to be exact, the sound sent shivers down my back
But I was drawn into the pack and before long
They allowed me to join in and sing their song
So from the cliffs and highest hill, yeah
We would gladly get our fill
Howling endlessly and shrilly at the dawn
And I lost the taste for judging right from wrong
For my flesh had turned to fur, yeah
And my thoughts, they surely were
Turned to instinct and obedience to God.
You can wear your fur
like a river on fire
But you better be sure
if you're makin' God a liar
I'm a rattlesnake, Babe,
I'm like fuel on fire
So if you're gonna' get made,
Don't be afraid of what you've learned
On the day that I turned 23,
I was curled up underneath a dogwood tree
When suddenly a girl with skin the color of a pearl
She wandered aimlessly, but she didn't seem to see
She was listenin' for the angels just like me
So I stood and looked about
I brushed the leaves off of my snout
And then I heard my mother shouting through the trees
You should have seen that girl go shaky at the knees
So I took her by the arm
We settled down upon a farm
And raised our children up as gently as you please.
And now my fur has turned to skin
And I've been quickly ushered in
To a world that I confess I do not know
But I still dream of running careless through the snow
An' through the howlin' winds that blow,
Across the ancient distant flow,
It fill our bodies up like water till we know.
You can wear your fur
Like a river on fire
But you better be sure
If you're makin' God a liar
I'm a rattlesnake, Babe,
I'm like fuel on fire
So if you're gonna' get made,
Don't be afraid of what you've learned
Thanks, Scotty, for introducing me to this wicked good band!
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Nice Limbs, Tree | 8 Tracks Mix
Check out 8tracks.com, make a mix! Thanks @benphoster for tweeting it & clueing me in!
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Lake Huron & the Gulf of Mexico
When visiting Uhaul's site, not sure why, but the only bodies of water that are labeled are Lake Huron and the Gulf of Mexico. I guess they're in a league of their own. Huzzah, Lake Huron!
"why burn your bridges when you can blow your bridges up"
so, in our consturction/structures class we were given the task to create a bridge that was 2 feet long, 6 inches wide and capable of holding extreme loads. But the catch was that it could only weigh 4 ounces(which is similar to 4 fluid ounces if you want to picture the weight of the last 1/3 of beer minus the can weight). There was a scale and you were disqualified if you went over. so, my friend jeff and i used balsa wood (the kind you use for small toy airplanes)on its strong side for our bridge. The class had a competition of bridge destroying, which was a helluva good time. Based on our material we decided to go with a classic arch/mountain-pass bridge with diagonal trusses and our little feather-weight bridge a monster holding over 70 lbs.
Monday, October 12, 2009
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Thursday, September 24, 2009
cool house?
scott recently asked me what i thought of rem koolhaas and i now have an answer. he is an architect that emphasizes the aggressive, confrontational and, at the same time, hedonistic and indulgent aspects of architecture. a professor of mine knows him well and says he is very talented, smart, well-spoken and basically a total unbearable asshole. he is completely hedonistic himself, which is why his architecture is able to reflect it so well.
upon examination, i think he has some interesting aspects to his work but i don't love his architecture.
that said, i do absolutely love him as a writer. he was a writer before he was an architect and it shows. i just read his book, delirious new york. so good. you know how you want to read history but most of the time it is the boring facts with only a few interesting anecdotes. well, this book presupposes that you have a solid grasp of basic history and just fills you with the wonderful, insane, beautifully odd and interesting history of new york. you do not have to be into architecture to dig this book the most. quick read. and you can tell it is by an architect because there are a lot of great pictures. i highly recommend checking it out.
this, the seattle library, is probably now his most famous work and generally agreed to be his best:
his new project in dubai that is clearly influenced by the death star.
incidentally, cincinnati folks, cincy's contemporary art museum is probably the closest thing to a koolhaas-esque building in ohio - it was done by zaha hadid, a former student and partner at his firm.
upon examination, i think he has some interesting aspects to his work but i don't love his architecture.
that said, i do absolutely love him as a writer. he was a writer before he was an architect and it shows. i just read his book, delirious new york. so good. you know how you want to read history but most of the time it is the boring facts with only a few interesting anecdotes. well, this book presupposes that you have a solid grasp of basic history and just fills you with the wonderful, insane, beautifully odd and interesting history of new york. you do not have to be into architecture to dig this book the most. quick read. and you can tell it is by an architect because there are a lot of great pictures. i highly recommend checking it out.
this, the seattle library, is probably now his most famous work and generally agreed to be his best:
his new project in dubai that is clearly influenced by the death star.
incidentally, cincinnati folks, cincy's contemporary art museum is probably the closest thing to a koolhaas-esque building in ohio - it was done by zaha hadid, a former student and partner at his firm.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Monday, September 21, 2009
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Monday, September 14, 2009
The Best-Looking TV Set You Never Knew You Wanted | Threadless T
Saturday, September 12, 2009
i think they may be trying to kill us
2 things:
1) architecture school is intense. really, really intense. as in - i think i remember sleep and i think i remember it being awesome - intense. my brain hurts and the professors all carry metal-plated shovels with thich they dump projects and deadlines on you daily. i assume it is because they went through it. more than a couple of people have quoted old-blood-and-guts patton - the goal of war is to get though it. i am not sure he said that...it doesn't seem like something he would say... but you get the point.
2) architecture school is a helluva lot of fun and i am surrounded by other architecture nerds all of the time.
at least i get to study here. this is the architecture library. it was designed by cass gilbert - architect of the woolworth building in new york.
guess what i have to get back to doing now.
1) architecture school is intense. really, really intense. as in - i think i remember sleep and i think i remember it being awesome - intense. my brain hurts and the professors all carry metal-plated shovels with thich they dump projects and deadlines on you daily. i assume it is because they went through it. more than a couple of people have quoted old-blood-and-guts patton - the goal of war is to get though it. i am not sure he said that...it doesn't seem like something he would say... but you get the point.
2) architecture school is a helluva lot of fun and i am surrounded by other architecture nerds all of the time.
at least i get to study here. this is the architecture library. it was designed by cass gilbert - architect of the woolworth building in new york.
guess what i have to get back to doing now.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Hubble Pic: Butterfly. MAJESTIC!
NGC 6302| Butterfly Emerges from Stellar Demise in Planetary Nebula NGC 6302
This celestial object looks like a delicate butterfly. But it is far from serene.What resemble dainty butterfly wings are actually roiling cauldrons of gas heated to more than 36,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The gas is tearing across space at more than 600,000 miles an hour -- fast enough to travel from Earth to the moon in 24 minutes!
NGC 6302 lies within our Milky Way galaxy, roughly 3,800 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius. The glowing gas is the star’s outer layers, expelled over about 2,200 years. The "butterfly" stretches for more than two light-years, which is about half the distance from the Sun to the nearest star, Alpha Centauri.
Read more and view more pictures HERE.
Jeff Tweedy on Confirmation (aka. essentially why Confirmation doesn't work)
In a recent Relevant Magazine Jeff Tweedy talked about his confirmation experience:
"I was confirmed in the Church of Christ," he says. "I was not really keen on going back after that. That was the deal my parents had made: 'Go and get confirmed and basically we'll go on Easter and Christmas.'"
What?!?
Now I have no beef with Jeff Tweedy. For me confirmation was pretty much the same deal: do it and you don't have to go back. We were kids, what do we know. I have a problem with all parents who make this deal with their kids and force their kid to go through confirmation. The only thing they are all confirming is that neither they nor their kid are committed to Jesus and his church! It's confirmation of apathy and disinterest!
Students do what their parents do in regards to faith and practice. Period. If a parent is committed to Jesus and his church the kid will be. If the parent's not, kid won't be. There are extraordinary exceptions but as a general rule those who are involved before will be involved after the confirmation experience. Those who aren't won't be.
I'm almost to the point where I'm ready to say, "Let's cut to the chase...parents...you don't care, you just want a piece of paper for God knows what reason. Students...many of you don't want to be here. Let's save everybody some time and hassle, give you your pieces of paper so you can go away and the rest of you who were here before and will be here afterwards...let's get down to business following Jesus."
"I was confirmed in the Church of Christ," he says. "I was not really keen on going back after that. That was the deal my parents had made: 'Go and get confirmed and basically we'll go on Easter and Christmas.'"
What?!?
Now I have no beef with Jeff Tweedy. For me confirmation was pretty much the same deal: do it and you don't have to go back. We were kids, what do we know. I have a problem with all parents who make this deal with their kids and force their kid to go through confirmation. The only thing they are all confirming is that neither they nor their kid are committed to Jesus and his church! It's confirmation of apathy and disinterest!
Students do what their parents do in regards to faith and practice. Period. If a parent is committed to Jesus and his church the kid will be. If the parent's not, kid won't be. There are extraordinary exceptions but as a general rule those who are involved before will be involved after the confirmation experience. Those who aren't won't be.
I'm almost to the point where I'm ready to say, "Let's cut to the chase...parents...you don't care, you just want a piece of paper for God knows what reason. Students...many of you don't want to be here. Let's save everybody some time and hassle, give you your pieces of paper so you can go away and the rest of you who were here before and will be here afterwards...let's get down to business following Jesus."
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Monday, August 31, 2009
Matisyahu Helped Me Connect with God This Morning
I read Philippians 1 & 2 this morning and I was struck by the phrase "live your life in a way that is worthy of the gospel." Boom. I want that.
And I read from Church History in Plain Language about Constantine, Ambrose and particularly his calling the emperor to repent of his slaughter of 7,000 Thessalonians in the coliseum. The bishop making the emperor repent? Awesome.
But it was the culmination of that stuff listening to Matisyahu's One Day that about brought me to tears in worship. Check it out.
And I read from Church History in Plain Language about Constantine, Ambrose and particularly his calling the emperor to repent of his slaughter of 7,000 Thessalonians in the coliseum. The bishop making the emperor repent? Awesome.
But it was the culmination of that stuff listening to Matisyahu's One Day that about brought me to tears in worship. Check it out.
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
i'll be the one at the cool kids' table doing the "make milk come out of my nose" trick
first day of class today. sabrina has been very supportive. she is walking me to the bus stop and has helped me get the essential items to be successful, not just in school, but in making a great first impression. so i have taken these pictures to show you that i am going into architecture school equipped with:
1) a trapper keeper, of course, that displays my passion for hot air balloons (because unicorns were sold out).
2) My A-Team Lunch Box. Yep. Ain't nobody gonna pity this fool.
3) And, just so that my coolness is immediately recognized, a classic winger t-shirt. she IS only seventeen. but that is how we do in texas.
see you at the max, suckas.
1) a trapper keeper, of course, that displays my passion for hot air balloons (because unicorns were sold out).
2) My A-Team Lunch Box. Yep. Ain't nobody gonna pity this fool.
3) And, just so that my coolness is immediately recognized, a classic winger t-shirt. she IS only seventeen. but that is how we do in texas.
see you at the max, suckas.
Church History in Plain Language
I'm spending a few minutes of my morning time reading a chapter from Bruce Shelley's Church History in Plain Language. The chapters are small enough to read quickly, narrative enough to be fun and informative enough to be instructive. There's real power and joy and lessons in reading the story of God's people as a community and as individuals. Shelley keeps it moving, as he says was one of his goals, and tells great stories.
It's a large book but it's amazing how much we can read and what progress we can make by reading a manageable chunk daily. Shelley has made each chapter the perfect length.
I've taken seminary courses on Church history but this book is honestly just as helpful, if not more so. What is the saying that tose who fail to know history are doomed to repeat it? Knowing Church history gives us the ability to acknowledge ancient heresies and attacks in their modern skins.
So far this is a must read. Thanks for the recommendation @joshuareitano. Now if only I could require all our Confirmands to read it...
Some quotes from today's chapter:
"...the attempt to tie the gospel to the latest theories of men is self-defeating. Nothing is as fleeting in history as the latest theories that flourish among the enlightened and nothing can be more quickly dismissed by later generations."
"In orthodox Christianity redemption came not by some secret knowledge of spiritual realms but by God's action in history."
"Man's evil is not in his body; it is in his affections. He loves the wrong things. This affliction is so deep, so basic to man's life on earth, that only a special Savior can free him from himself...Man does not need a teacher. He needs a Savior."
It's a large book but it's amazing how much we can read and what progress we can make by reading a manageable chunk daily. Shelley has made each chapter the perfect length.
I've taken seminary courses on Church history but this book is honestly just as helpful, if not more so. What is the saying that tose who fail to know history are doomed to repeat it? Knowing Church history gives us the ability to acknowledge ancient heresies and attacks in their modern skins.
So far this is a must read. Thanks for the recommendation @joshuareitano. Now if only I could require all our Confirmands to read it...
Some quotes from today's chapter:
"...the attempt to tie the gospel to the latest theories of men is self-defeating. Nothing is as fleeting in history as the latest theories that flourish among the enlightened and nothing can be more quickly dismissed by later generations."
"In orthodox Christianity redemption came not by some secret knowledge of spiritual realms but by God's action in history."
"Man's evil is not in his body; it is in his affections. He loves the wrong things. This affliction is so deep, so basic to man's life on earth, that only a special Savior can free him from himself...Man does not need a teacher. He needs a Savior."
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